In Our Time

In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, announced the arrival of an original and distinct literary voice. The stories’ richly complicated themes of alienation, loss, grief, and separation contrast with Hemingway’s spare but deeply evocative prose. This Warbler Classics edition includes the essay Hemingway at Midnight by eminent literary critic Malcolm Cowley, who was a contemporary of Hemingway, as well as a detailed biographical timeline. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American writer, journalist, and sportsman whose understated literary style had a profound influence on twentieth-century fiction. His novels, which are considered classics of American literature, include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and The Old Man and the Sea. Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. He was a well-regarded chronicler and fellow traveler of the Lost Generation of expatriate writers and artists who came of age during World War I and an influential editor at Viking Press.